jim schultz, always a pleasure. see you again soon. >>> all right, last week was so flooded from one event to the other. there was so much news coming out of the mueller probe that, to be honest, it was easy to miss a larger pattern that was at play. but now we've had some time, we can digest it, and i will show you that there has been a method to mueller all along. i'll show it to you next. >> announcer: "cuomo prime time" brought to you by the favorite, a royal tale of loyalty, power and deception. you want relief fast. only new thermacare ultra pain relieving cream has 4 active ingredients, to fight pain 4 different ways. get relief fast with new thermacare ultra pain relieving cream. >>> so, michael cohen makes number five, the fifth person with ties to trump and/or his campaign to plead guilty in the russia probe. think about that. four of them for making false statements involving contacts with russia. and now the latest, paul manafort, he stands accused of lying to the fbi, even during his plea arrangement, a

jim schultz, always a pleasure. see you again soon. >>> all right, last week was so flooded from one event to the other. there was so much news coming out of the mueller probe that, to be honest, it was easy to miss a larger pattern that was at play. but now we've had some time, we can digest it, and i will show you that there has been a method to mueller all along. i'll show it to you next. boom. enjoy your prime rib! anyone ever call you, "meat santa"? no, that's... weird. happy holidays. enjoy. next customer? enjoy. our new, hot, fresh breakfast will get you the readiest. holiday inn express. book now for at least 20% off during our annual sale. ♪ can you feel it ♪ can you feel it amazon has everything you need for your holiday get together. with low prices and free shipping on millions of items, for everything you need this holiday, visit amazon. from capital one.nd i switched to the spark cash card i earn unlimited 2% cash back on everything i buy. and last year, i earned $36,000 in cash back. which i used to o

. >> joining me now to discuss, jim schultz, former attorney for the trump white house.time on this christmas eve. >> thank you. >> first question, in your view, is there any compelling legal reason for the white house to block the public release of the special counsel's report? >> okay. so, schiff had it right in that the report is going to go over to congress, presumably. it doesn't have to. presumably it's going to go over to congress. i think it would be politically detrimental to this administration to hold it back for any reason from going over to congress. certainly there are reasons why portions of it will be redacted. remember this is a counterintelligence investigation. there are like ly to be -- i think the report would likely go over to congress. i don't think the administration would try to stop that. the mueller team reports to the deputy attorney general and they're part of the executive branch. i think executive privilege would be asserted in this case but i don't see it happening. >> let me ask you, you bring up the acting attorney general. we learned th

joining me now to discuss, former trump white house lawyer jim schultz.for coming on. >> nice to be on. >> let's talk about this "time" magazine report. paul manafort was pressured by a russian ex-spy to pay back millions of dollars in debt that he apparently owed during the time that he was running trump's 2016 presidential campaign. that russian ex-spy reportedly contacted manafort on behalf of a russian billionaire who has close ties to the kremlin. what does this suggest to you about the influence the russians may have had over manafort at this time where he was part of the campaign? >> any time you have that kind of leverage over someone like paul manafort, it's concerning. that being said, there hasn't bib from the mueller camp or from the special prosecutor's office any charges whatsoever against manafort relative to any conduct that he had during the campaign. which says a lot. certainly, mueller knew about this. just because "time" magazine is reporting it recently doesn't mean mueller didn't know about it prior to this. he certainly did. if ther

barrett berger, jim schultz. >>> we've got to look deeper in this. there are certain arguments you can make. to hide it from his wife, understandable. also to kind of help his campaign. that's about legal analysis. i'm looking at something broader investigatively. the president has a pattern of saying things that aren't true to protect himself. that's fine here, it's fine if he wants to play you for a sucker and deal with it in the campaign. not with federal investigators. what more could be coming from michael cohen that exposes that the president knew things that he won't own? he says michael cohen, i ain't going down as the villain. there are many more ways he could damage the president, or at least expose the president to have to own things he doesn't want to. i will lay them out for you next. we can't do it! i'm telling you, it can't be done! we are doing it! it's the holidays! t-mobile is offering the awesome iphone xr, with unlimited, for just 40 bucks a month. wooooo! unlimited, with the new iphone xr included? no one else is doing that! so t

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let's bring in former trump white house lawyer jim schultz. good to see you. jim.about whitaker and his role? >> i'm not worried about whitaker or his role in any way, shape, or form. here's why, first off the justice department did find there's no conflict of interest that existed. and they made an opinion, there was some expression of opinion as it related to the appearance of a conflict of interest. in this case, lawyers do this all the time. we do it by way of writing. we do it on television like i do day in and day out on tv and we express them in various cases. legal opinions and make legal judgments with facts. sometimes we assume some facts, especially when we're on television or we're writing something by way of a legal writing that's not part of the case, but we express opinions all the time. and in this case that's what matt whitaker did when he was not the attorney general of the united states. the fact that he's now the attorney general -- >> how is there a separation of your personal opinion and the legal merit of application of the law when you are a

with us to weigh in on all of this now, cnn legal commentator and former white house attorney jim schultz and federal prosecutor remembnaldo. as of right now, mueller hasn't shown evidence of collusion on its face but cases are presented every day without a smoking gun. is that the evidence out there damming enough? >> well, there is certainly a lot of evidence. you've done a very nice job laying all of that out, anna. there is more out there that you didn't layout. you had a few minutes to do it. you probably could have done a whole one-hour show at this point. we saw a vent firecent filing. what does that mean offering a foreign government offering political cynergy with the time that candidate is seeking help from that government as to a business deal. that is corrupt at best. unlawful at worst. now i will say that the mueller investigation is still not at the stage where there is any charges that have been brought relating, that relate to this with the president. but that's because like any other grand jury investigation, it's operating in secret. the new york obviously, which we're n

defend that, jim schultz, to the american people. and not just during the campaign. that outreach continued after the election. >> we don't know what we don't know. there's still a lot to be revealed as it relates to what mueller and his team knows about the contacts and what went on. >> we know that because we've seen e-mails and we've seen people testify under oath as to the existence of these contacts and we've seen a guy like michael flynn, the national security adviser, plead guilty. >> there were contacts. the question is, was there conspiracy? to date, there hasn't been anyone charged with conspiracy as it relates to campaign-related activities in coordination with russia as it relates to campaign activities. that's the big question. we don't know yet. i think it's premature for anyone to come to a conclusion as to what mueller and going to say about this and what evidence mueller has. a lot of those filings are redacted at this point, which is separate. you talked earlier about it. giuliani said this weekend that -- and related to the dump that mueller made.

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i want to start by thinking secretary schultz and jim, who have, or running this project on the problems of the new era. and i want to thank them for particularly, putting a focus on issues of governance. because it is very clear hathat across the world, and whatever setting, governments are having trouble connecting to their people. they are having trouble delivering to their people. in almost every country, you are seeing a crisis of confidence in institutions. particularly in local democracies. and so are path today is to talk about what aspect of this problem of legitimacy, problems of confidence and that is, what is the impact on the way that we get our information, the speed which we get our information, what is the impact of information technology on democracy and should we think of as a challenge as well as an opportunity? and so, what will do is for 40 minutes or so, 4045 minutes, the panelists here going to battle around some concepts that they've written very good paper sweat but then we open up to thyou and ask you to join in the conversation. i am saa professor and nobody ra

i want to start by thinking secretary schultz and jim penn pemby, who are running this project on the problems of the new era. puttingo thank them for a focus on issues of governance because it is very clear that across the world in whatever setting, governments are having trouble connecting to their peoples, delivering to their people. arehim as every country you saying a crisis of confidence and institutions, particularly in local democracies. path today is to talk about one aspect of this problem of legitimacy, problem of confidence. that is, what is the impact on the way we get our information, this bead with which we get our information, what is the impact of information technology on democracy? is it a challenge as well as an opportunity? , 40, 45inutes or so minutes, the panelists here will have some questions and concepts they have written good papers for the conference we are holding. then we will open it up to you and ask you to join in the conversation. if nobody raises their hands, i will cold call. so get your questions ready. [laughter] with that, let me say we just had

i want to start by thanking secretary schultz and jim timbie, who are running this project on the problems of the new era. i want to thank them for particularly putting a focus on issues of governance because it is very clear that across the world, in whatever setting, governments are having trouble connecting to their people. they are having trouble delivering to their people. in almost every country you are seeing a crisis of confidence in institutions, particularly in liberal democracies. and so our task today is to talk about one aspect of this problem of legitimacy, problem of confidence. and that is, what is the impact on the way we get our information, the speed with which we get our information? what is the impact of information technology on democracy, and should we think of it as a challenge as well as an opportunity? what we are going to do is, for 40 minutes or so, 40, 45 minutes, the panelists here are going to bat around some questions and some concepts that they have written very good papers for the conference that we are holding. then we are going to open it up to you and a

jim. >> does it sway the lines of republicans? former trump white house lawyer james schultzo discuss. thanks for taking the time this morning. >> my pleasure. >> let me ask you this. william barr wrote a memo that said that mueller's obstruction probe was asinine. should barr's public dismissal disqualify him as ag? >> let's start out by saying that william barr is one of the most respected legal minds in washington, d.c. and around the could your honor try. he has tremendous respect on both sides of the aisle and in the legal community. the fact that he sends a letter to the department of justice criticizing the mueller investigation, the underpinnings of it and the fact he shared that with others is no different than an op-ed or anything else. rosenstein said it had no bearing on the case whatsoever. is this going to be something that's going to cause him trouble during the confirmation hearings? certainly people will ask that question. but his legal analysis, quite frankly, is one that's very insightful. at the time, the time he offered it, he did not have all the facts.

was legitimate, but nobody including debbie wassermann schultz had ever participated and know loretta lynch and no way this would have happened. >> jim comey is testifying today as we speak before your committee, a second day of interviews. the republicans leading the committee brought him in before democrats take over in january. you called for him to resign because of his handling of the clinton e-mail investigation. you said you feel like that was a contributing factor. i wonder after you had harsh words for him in 2016. now that you see him as this foil for republicans, you see all of these things that transpired in his firing and he has been outspoken more to the benefit of democrats than republicans. do you have a different assessment of that looking back on whether he should resign? >> i said he should have resigned back in october and he was on cnn. i'm not sure if it was your show or another. i thought it could cause hillary clinton to lose the election. i think it did. james comey said he is horrified at the prospect that they could have anything to do with it, but he did. that was wrong to get involved and i understand his

sadist sad dot and in brussels our political correspondent teri schultz welcome to you both of those start with you what does the departure of jim mean for america's european allies in the syria conflict well you know it's for germany it's really really important to have a reliable ally. when jim mad as a resigned germany lost a reliable ally in transatlantic relations in the h.b.o. and and much as much as resignation is of course was a result of the syria conflict so basically us leaving syria getting out of syria is a big problem just and october turkey germany france and russia got together trying to find a solution to the to the conflict and with us out of the picture it is going to make it so much harder to find a solution in syria terry already here in brussels. the u.s. is the dominant player in nato as we all know so the resignation of the u.s. defense secretary must be big news there at nato headquarters in brussels what's the reaction from nato. well big news indeed and not welcome news at all you know when this these sort of difficult relations with the secretaries of state have happened with you know rex tillerson an

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